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When do we need emotional rest? Emotional rest is important all of the time, but particularly when we’ve been dealing with stressful or draining situations. Emotional rest allows us to process our own emotions, free up our emotional “bandwidth,” and regulate our emotions better. The signs that you...
Identifying as an introvert or extrovert can help you understand how you interact with the world. But we know that social rest is important for everyone. As our world becomes more and more connected via technology and social media, social rest has become more difficult to achieve. This can lead to...
After our three day weekend, it’s time to start looking at mental rest. Mental rest is probably the 2nd most well-known type of rest, right after physical. If you aren’t getting enough mental rest, you may feel like you’re unable to focus or like your mind is always thinking about something, even...
Now, we can start getting into how to include more rest in your life. I count physical rest as anything that is nourishing for the body and does not make the body more tired. I like to frame physical rest this way, so we remember that rest isn’t just laying down and not doing anything. With that...
We can all easily agree that rest is important and that we should emphasize it in our lives, but actually implementing rest is another story entirely. This can be for a variety of reasons. Anything from not knowing how to rest to feeling like you haven’t done enough to justify resting can create...
This is the first in a 9 part series on rest that we’ll be sharing over the next few months with you! Rest is so important, as I was recently reminded when my body decided that I would be forced to rest if I wouldn’t take the time for it myself. This article will introduce you to the different...
Parenting, in general, is not easy on a marriage, but when you have the extra challenge of parenting a child who has autism it is even harder. Studies have shown that 80% of couples who have a child with autism end up divorcing, but divorce doesn’t have to be an expected outcome. When a child is...
Parenting can be one of the most isolating experiences of our life. Parenting a child on the autism spectrum can multiply that isolation by a hundred. There just don’t seem to be words that adequately explain what our life looks like- and if the words did exist we would be too exhausted to...
Isolation is one of the most common issues that people deal with, but how do we stop being isolated? I feel like people always talk about “building community” or “relying on your community.” But people talk a lot less about how you’re actually supposed to do that or what that actually means. ...
